Matango (1963)
Note: this print runs 73 minutes against a recorded 89 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto, Katsumi Tezuka, Haruo Nakajima
Directed by Ishirō Honda
Matango (マタンゴ) is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara. Partially based on William Hope Hodgson's short story "The Voice in the Night", it centers on a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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